LASORTING – Mitsubishi Electric Laser Website

The efficient production cell

that gives your competition sleepless nights … and enables you to sleep soundly

LASORTING ensures continuity of production in terms of laser workload, sorting and storage. Rapid and dependable processes help you stay competitive. With unsupervised operations, LASORTING permits operation 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The result is increased or stabilised output with lower unit wage costs. The employees so far responsible for physically demanding sorting can now be entrusted with value-generating activities.

Staying competitive: The orders are intelligently processed without impairing efficient material utilisation – thus excluding order-picking errors and time lost between the various process steps. All this brings down the costs that would arise due to downstream manual handling.

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Sorting

Skeleton removal

Order picking

Perfectly sorted in kits –

even with different material thicknesses and labelled if desired.

Only when the subsequent process steps (such as bending, welding and painting) are taken into account from the outset can work continue without lost time. ASTES4 ensures precisely this seamless integration into the production process, regardless of whether the downstream process takes place on your own site or elsewhere.

A broad variety of options
Different sheet thicknesses are prepared as kits for further processing. This saves time and money and ensures that they are accurately positioned on each pallet.

Optional labelling device
Enables parts to be tracked by attaching labels.

Intelligent, box for box
The execution of production processes is geared precisely to your needs. Whatever the requirement – boxes or angled stacking – ASTES4 can do it.

Selected –

the modular principle.

Four grippers are better than one or two, particularly when your laser-cutting process depends on sorting speed. This is precisely where the ASTES4 patent comes into play. Each gripper is capable of using vacuum or magnetic tools in a variety of shapes and sizes. These tools are automatically changed to suit the geometry and weight of the part. The grippers can operate individually or collectively to move large or heavy parts and are thus vastly superior to all conventional laser automation systems in terms of productivity and efficiency.

The grippers can be magnetic or pneumatic and come in a huge variety of shapes

A finished program in 5 clicks ...

it couldn’t be simpler. Programming? What for?

The software automatically optimises and manages the production process through to storage, without the user having to intervene. The outcome is unsurpassed userfriendliness. The user only has to select the pallets being used and everything proceeds automatically as a single production order – management of various materials, part quantities, sorting and storage – based on purchase orders and deliveries.

Simplicity also means being able to resort to plug & play technology. Thanks to the experience of ASTES4 and Mitsubishi Electric, the installation of the unique LASORTING system is a simple and swiftly accomplished task with the advantage of a dramatic reduction in lead time from the start of installation to the start of production.

Three different sheet/plate thicknesses are sorted and deposited on four pallets

Simply graphic operation, precise result

Flexible for today, tomorrow

and the coming decade – one layout variant is bound to fit!

Thanks to its modularity, the LASORTING production cell adapts to the customer’s production requirements and space available on site. A fully integrated production cell consisting of the laser module and sorting system with integrated storage becomes a single unit that is far more productive than the mere sum of its parts. The intelligence of this solution can be found in the software that controls the entire process, ensuring automation and flexibility at the same time – entirely in accordance with the customer’s needs.

All dimensions in mm

		LASORTING Light	LASORTING Sort
Max. sheet size		3,050 x 1,525 / 4,050 x 2,060 mm
Max. sheet thickness		10 mm	25 mm
Laser technology		Fiber/CrossFlow
Laser power		2–8 kW
Max. sortable part size		3,050 x 1,525 / 4,050 x 2,060 mm
Number of NC-controlled axes (sorting system)		14	16
Load-bearing capacity	Per head	250 kg	500 kg
Rotation	Per head	360°
Max. speed		230 m/min	240 m/min
Max. acceleration		1 g
Automation step 1 4-shelf conveyor (transverse or longitudinal)	Number of pallet locations	4
	Max. weight per pallet	3,000 kg
	Application	1 sheet blank pallet, 2 order-picking pallets (6 EUR-pallets), 1 skeleton pallet
Automation step 2 Storage tower including 3-shelf conveyor (lateral or longitudinal)	Racks	1 (single tower) / 2 (double tower)
	Height	6,000/8,000 mm
	Number of storage locations	10–32
	Max. weight per pallet	3,000 kg
	Application	As required – definition of sheet blank pallets, order-picking pallets (3 EUR-pallets per storage location) and skeleton pallets possible

Not the right layout for you?

Doesn't matter! Your solution is: LASORTING – CUSTOMIZED

Meeting your requirements to perfection.

An automation solution is only ever as good as its tailoring to the needs of the customer. ASTES4 specialises in adapting to your needs – regardless of the length, width and height of the storage system. Get in touch with us and benefit from the experience that will boost your productivity – for good!

		LASORTING Light Customized	LASORTING Sort Customized	LASORTING Heavy Customized
Max. sheet length		3,050/4,050 mm		8,030 mm
Max. sheet thickness		10 mm	25 mm
Laser technology		Fiber/CrossFlow
Max. sortable part size		3,050 x 1,525 / 4,050 x 2,060 mm		8,000 x 3,000 mm
Number of NC-controlled axes (sorting system)		16
Load-bearing capacity	Per head	250 kg	500 kg	1,150 kg
Rotation	Per head	360°
Max. speed		230 m/min	240 m/min	220 m/min
Max. acceleration		1 g		0.8 g
Automation step 1 4-shelf conveyor (transverse or longitudinal)	Number of pallet locations	As required
	Max. weight per pallet	3,000 kg		5,000–10,000 kg
	Application	As required
Automations step 2 Storage tower including 3-shelf conveyor (lateral or longitudinal)	Racks	As required
	Height	As required
	Number of storage locations	As required
	Max. weight per pallet	As required
	Application	As required

You are interested in the ASTES4 sorting system, but would like to continue operating your existing laser system from another manufacturer? No problem! ASTES4 has the perfect solution for you!

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